Dalai Lama Quotes

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

I am a great enthusiast and early adopter of technology, but sometimes I wonder whether the inexorable integration of technology in our lives could diminish some of our quintessential human capacities, such as compassion and cooperation.

It is easier to treat people as objects to be manipulated if you have never learned any other way to see them.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

I am definitely a person who firmly believes in the human touch and in the importance of people.

As the world becomes a more digital place, we cannot forget about the human connection.

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

No matter how many weapons you have, no matter how great your technology might be, the world cannot live without love.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

It's wonderful to move forward technologically, but we cannot forget that we are human beings who thrive on relationships, who thrive on interconnectivity, who thrive on sharing your feelings and emotions.

Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.

Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?